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Paul Krugman pretty angry that our media is so, er, impartial

The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president. Once again, health reform — his only major change to government — was modeled on Republican plans, indeed plans coming from the Heritage Foundation. And everything else — including the wrongheaded emphasis on austerity in the face of high unemployment — is according to the conservative playbook.

What all this means is that there is no penalty for extremism; no way for most voters, who get their information on the fly rather than doing careful study of the issues, to understand what’s really going on.

You have to ask, what would it take for these news organizations and pundits to actually break with the convention that both sides are equally at fault?

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Every word Mephistopheles wrote is bunk. How the devil doesn’t strike these liars makes one doubt that he exists.

Think about what’s happening right now. We have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and Democrats in Congress are bending over backward to be accommodating — offering plans that are all spending cuts and no taxes, plans that are far to the right of public opinion.

Vatican City, Jan 25, 2009 / 01:06 pm (CNA).- The first sign of Vatican disappointment with the Obama administration came on Saturday, when Holy See officials reacted to the President’s executive order reversing the Mexico City policy, thus making federal money available to promote abortion internationally.

The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president.

Liberals like to do this when talking about the media or Obama – place “the center” around the middle of all the political positions ever held anywhere (in their view), instead of the center of those held by contemporary Americans. Why, compared to Stalin and the Kos comment threads, Obama is downright reactionary!

This makes them feel better about the bias that 80% of the country sees, and since they consider every pissant corner of the world to be equal in intellectual worth to America, it harmonizes with them.

You have to ask, what would it take for these news organizations and pundits to actually break with the convention that both sides are equally at fault?

The plausible deniability of economic failure, or the election of a Republican president.

The reality, of course, is that we already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president.

Stop being so hard on him for this. You guys just don’t realize that Paul Krugman thought he was in China–Hu JinTao, like almost all of the post-Mao leaders, is a moderate conservative compared to Mao. It is just that Tom Friedman convinced him that we should be like China so much that he temporarily thought he was in China.

You have to ask, what would it take for these news organizations and pundits to actually break with the convention that both sides are equally at fault?

Wait, I just realized what he’s saying here. He’s saying that the six-month-old hardline newbie Republicans, who are emissaries and products of the Tea Party movement, which is a phenomenon formed in reaction to Obama’s economic policies, which were a response to the economic turmoil…are at fault for the economic turmoil.

this guy is more than a little childish, what is he doing writing for a major newspaper? Calling others ‘crazy’, spewing terms like ‘insane’ and worse. Where’s the adults civility, yes people happen to disagree with him, only a rather immature person believe disagreement with him equals insanity.

And everything else — including the wrongheaded emphasis on austerity in the face of high unemployment — is according to the conservative playbook.

“Austerity” = borrowing $800 billion and handing it to unions, voter fraud groups, and bloated and corrupt state governments (who “created” jobs with the money, at an average cost of over a quarter million dollars per job).

That kind of “austerity” didn’t come out of the conservative playbook, Krugie. It came straight out of Mao’s little red book.

Yes, in the early 1990s, we, along with other prominent conservative economists, supported the idea of such a mandate. It seemed the only way to solve the “free-rider” problem, in which individuals can, under federal law, walk into any hospital emergency room nationwide and rack up big bills at taxpayer expense.